Dwa "pogrzeby" wojewody wileńskiego Janusza Radziwiłła. Przyczynek do stosunków politycznych i wyznaniowych w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim w drugiej połowie XVII wieku

ENOn the night of 30–31 December 1655, the Voivode of Vilnius and Great Hetman of Lithuania, Janusz Radziwiłł, died at Tykocin Castle. In times of peace, the funeral of the wealthiest magnate in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the mid-seventeenth century and political leader of the Reformed Evangelical community would probably have been a lavish, multi-day celebration, as was the funerals of his father Krzysztof and paternal uncle Janusz Radziwiłł. However, Janusz Radziwiłł died amid a war the Commonwealth fought against Russia and Sweden, and the Great Hetman of Lithuania, unable to successfully oppose the Russian army, opted to cooperate with Sweden. For this reason, his political opponents considered him a traitor, resulting in his embalmed body being hidden at Tykocin Castle. In January 1657, the troops of Grand Hetman of Lithuania Paweł Sapieha captured Tykocin, and when the Swedish garrison blew up the castle, Radziwiłł’s body disappeared under the rubble. Found in March 1657, it was taken away secretly and hidden in a Reformed church at Sielec in Brest County.Contrary to earlier hypotheses, in 1674, it was not Katarzyna Hlebowicz née Radziwiłł but the administrators of the estate of the deceased’s minor niece, Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, who ordered that Janusz Radziwiłł’s coffin be retrieved from its hiding place at Sielec and secretly transported to Kėdainiai. The initiators of this ‘second funeral’, Kazimierz Krzysztof Kłokocki and Stanisław Niezabitowski, also took care of ordering an ornate sarcophagus, which is now on display in the crypt of the Kėdainiai Reformed Church. The long hiding of Janusz Radziwiłł’s coffin testifies to the high level of political and confessional animosity in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the second half of the seventeenth century. Keywords: Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Radziwiłłs, magnates, funerals, confessional relations.

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